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Re:iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from lin... by rektide on Thursday June 08, 2023 @12:51PM (#36244954)
It'll be interesting to see how this goes. Google and Mozilla+Meta each have competing standards.

https://github.com/WICG/turtledove

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-preserving-attri...

To my knowledge, Mozilla's design is the only one where someone other than the browser collects & reports on click activity, and with a fairly trustless anonymizing double blind strategy for those intermediaries.

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Re:iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from lin... by WeylandYutani on Thursday June 08, 2023 @07:14PM (#36250635)
Mozilla isn't in the advertising business. Hell not being a trillion dollar company earns them my sympathy.
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Re:iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from lin... by donw on Thursday June 08, 2023 @08:39PM (#36251505)
Mozilla is in whatever business Google pays them to be in.
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Re:iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from lin... by rektide on Thursday June 08, 2023 @11:36PM (#36252802)
Yet here they are doing the saintly work of adding real trustless privacy.
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Re:iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from lin... by account42 on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:53AM (#36294627)
Saintly work would be telling the advertising industry to get fucked not finding ways to help them.
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Re:iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from lin... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Thursday June 08, 2023 @11:42PM (#36252840)
Without the online advertising business Mozilla cannot survive. As such, they advocate for preserving the online ads business. They partner with an advertising company. And they derive profit in return.

Opinions may differ, but to me being an advocate for it is no better than being "in" the advertising business.

(Not to suggest Mozilla is worthless. Far from it. I use Firefox on mobile, although I use a browser sparingly.)

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